11 Aug
2016
11 Aug
'16
11:18 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:36:19 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis davisf@union.edu wrote:
E. Liddell says it is addressed in kernel 4.7; I'm on an old kernel and may fool around with updating it sometime when I have nothing more fun to do.
That's what I got by drilling down to the actual advisory (it also linked the specific git commit, although I didn't check that link). Keep in mind that 4.7 is *very* recent--the merge window for its successor, 4.8, just closed yesterday. I don't know if the patch was backported to the various long-term support kernel series like 4.1.
Significantly older kernels should also be in the clear, but I got contradictory indications about exactly when the problem code was added--possibly version 3.6.
E. Liddell